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<h2>September, 2004</h2>
<ul>
<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/28/1096137217294.html">OpenSSH
marks its fifth birthday</a>
The Age.  September 28, 2004</strong></font><br>
Not only is OpenSSH now five years old, but it now commands an 
<a href="usage/index.html">88% market share</a>.  Article
includes a brief history of the OpenSSH project.
</ul>

<h2>Jan, 2003</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20021211.html">
Secure Passwordless Logins with SSH, Part 1</a>,
<a href="http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20021226.html">Part 2</a>,
<a href="http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20030109.html">Part 3</a>,
<a href="http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20030115.html">Part 4</a>,
Hacking Linux Exposed, Jan, 2003,
</strong></font><br>
Articles on using OpenSSH for passwordless logins.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>March, 2002</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=4072/sam0203d/sam0203d.htm">
Encrypted NFS with OpenSSH</a>,
SysAdmin, March 2002
</strong></font><br>
An article on securing NFS with OpenSSH for secure file
sharing over a network on UNIX and Linux system servers and
clients.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>February, 2002</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/02/25/1455230&amp;mode=thread">
OpenSSH's de Raadt: We've passed SSH.com in usage</a>,
NewsForge, February 25, 2002
</strong></font><br>
An analysis of the usage statistics of SSH and OpenSSH after
the trademark issues in February 2001 and its reasons.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Workbench/2001-12-17.01.html">
Building OpenSSH 3.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.1.1</a>,
Stepwise, February 1, 2002
</strong></font><br>
Guide for building OpenSSH on Mac OS X 10.1.1.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-keyc3/?Opent=grl,l=929,p=Kp3">
OpenSSH key management, Part 3</a>,
IBM Developer Works,February 2002
</strong></font><br>
Using agent forwarding to authenticate on untrusted hosts.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>January, 2002</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An Interview</a>,
BSD Today
</strong></font><br>
&quot;<i>it was our positive experience with OpenSSH that led us to trust OpenBSD.</i>&quot;
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0102/configssh.pdf">
Configuring OpenSSH for the Solaris Operating Environment</a>
(pdf), Sun BluePrints OnLine, January 2002
</strong></font><br>
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/aixssh.html">
Deploying OpenSSH on AIX -- tutorial</a>
IBM eServer Developer Domain, January 2002
</strong></font><br>
How to improve the security and integrity of your AIX servers.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>December, 2001</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://lwn.net/daily/openssh-3.0.2.php3">
OpenSSH 3.0.2 release announcement</a>,
Linux Weekly News, December 4, 2001
</strong></font><br>
<p>

</ul>

<h2>November, 2001</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5525">
Editors' Choice Awards</a>,
Linux Journal, Issue 92
</strong></font><br>
Communications Tool: OpenSSH.
&quot;<i>It's convenient, stable, and a real pleasure to set up and administer.</i>&quot;
<p>

</ul>

<h2>October, 2001</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/21/134817/35">
Secure Communications with OpenSSH</a>,
Kuro5hin, October 21, 2001
</strong></font><br>

A document on network security, cryptography, and an
introduction into SSH usage with OpenSSH.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>September, 2001</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/">
OpenSSH key management, Part 2</a>,
IBM developer Works, September 2001
</strong></font><br>
Description of the ssh-agent program usage.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>July, 2001</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc?t=gr,p=RSA-DSA">
OpenSSH key management, Part 1</a>,
IBM developer Works, July 2001
</strong></font><br>
Introduction into DSA and RSA authentication protocols.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.pdf">
Building and Deploying OpenSSH on the Solaris Operating Environment</a>
(pdf), Sun BluePrints OnLine, July 2001
</strong></font><br>
<p>

</ul>

<h2>April, 2001</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1236/urm0104i/">
Problems of SSH implementations</a>,
Unix Review, April 2001
</strong></font><br>

Passive traffic analysis - fixes only in OpenSSH (>=2.5.2)
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2384/LWD010410sshtips/">
Tips and tricks of advanced SSH usage</a>,
IT World, April 10, 2001
</strong></font><br>

Expert use of SSH for the administrator.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>March, 2001</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<u>Building OpenSSH on Mac OS X 10.0.1</u>,
Stepwise, March 21, 2001
</strong></font><br>

Guide for building OpenSSH on Mac OS X 10.0.1
<p>

</ul>

<h2>February, 2001</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0222/security.php3">
Resources</a>,
Linux Weekly News, February 22, 2001
</strong></font><br>

Linux Weekly News notices that OpenSSH 2.5.1 is released.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-02-14-003-04-NW-SW-BD">
Tatu Yl&ouml;nen requests OpenSSH to change its name</a>,
Linux Today, February 14, 2001<br>

<a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/14/1120247.shtml">
SSH Claims Trademark Infringement by OpenSSH</a>,
Slashdot, February 14, 2001<br>

<a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/pab-14.02.01-000/">
Secure Shell: &Auml;rger um das Markenzeichen "SSH"</a>,
Heise Online, February 14, 2001<br>

<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/14/1838201">
OpenSSH: Let the community decide trademark fight</a>,
NewsForge, February 14, 2001<br>

<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/16928.html">
OpenSSH: the five-year trademark itch</a>,
The Register, February 14, 2001<br>

<a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ssh20010214.html">
What's in a Name?</a>, Security Portal, February 14, 2001<br>

<a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0215/security.php3">
SSH Communications opens SSH trademark issue</a>,
Linux Weekly News, February 14, 2001<br>

<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/15/2031256">
SSH's Yl&ouml;nen: OpenSSH's trademark violation just hit my radar screen</a>,
NewsForge, February 15, 2001<br>

<a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/16/0217209">
The ssh vs. OpenSSH Trademark Battle, Next Round</a>,
Slashdot, February 15, 2001<br>

<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/16/1520247">
Yl&ouml;nen: We own ssh trademark, but here's a proposal</a>,
NewsForge, February 16, 2001<br>

<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2688215,00.html">
Open source's quiet revenge
</a>,
ZDnet News, February 21, 2001<br>

<a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0222/security.php3">
Updates on the ssh trademark issue</a>,
Linux Weekly News, February 22, 2001<br>

<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2689683,00.html">
Open source of contention--SSH!</a>,
ZDNet News, February 26, 2001<br>

<a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-201-4933417-0.html?tag=tp_pr">
Ssh! Don't use that trademark</a>,
CNET News.com, February 26, 2001<br>

<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/03/06/2216202">
OpenSSH: No news is good news in trademark dispute</a>,
NewsForge, March 7, 2001<br>

</strong></font><br>

Numerous news articles follow after Tatu Yl&ouml;nen sends
<a href="ssh-dispute">a series of letters and legal papers</a>
accusing OpenSSH of violating a trademark held by
<a href="http://www.ssh.com">ssh.com</a>.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>January, 2001</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a
href="http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/news/sshtips_0101.html">Top Ten
Secure Shell FAQs</a>, O'Reilly Network, January 25, 2001
</strong></font><br>

Top ten questions and usability tips from Richard Silverman, coauthor of
<em>SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide</em>, also known as <a
href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sshtdg/">the Snail book</a>.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a
href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/security-defensive_tools/product_
review/PIT20010110S0010/1">OpenSSH
2.3 And SSH Secure Shell 2.4</a>, Planet IT, January 9, 2001
</strong></font><br>

OpenSSH 2.3 vs. SSH Communications 2.4 under Linux, a review by Pete Loshin.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>December, 2000</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a
href="http://www.freeos.com/articles/2975/">Red Hat 7.0 Review</a>, 
FreeOS.com, December 24, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Just in time for the shopping frenzy, Red Hat Linux now includes OpenSSH.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a
href="http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue81/4412.html">The 101 
Uses of OpenSSH: Part I</a>, Linux Journal, December 14, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Paranoid Penguin columnist Mick Bauer gives a quick description of the history
of OpenSSH, then writes about the cool things you can do with it.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a
href="http://www.freeos.com/articles/2896/">Securing Linux:
Part 2</a>, FreeOS.com, December 13, 2000
</strong></font><br>

In a continuing series of how-to articles, Trevor Warren lists more proactive
security measures for Linux, including OpenSSH.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.linuxsecurity.com.br/sections.php?op=viewarticle&amp;artid=2">Interview
with Kurt Seifried of SecurityPortal.com</a>, Linux Security Brasil,
December 4, 2000
</strong></font><br>
In an interview by Renato Murilo Langona, security columnist and researcher
Kurt Seifried lists OpenSSH among his indispensable security tools.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong><u>Protect Your Data with OpenSSH</u>,
Linux Magazine, December 2000
</strong></font><br>

An introduction to secure communications using OpenSSH, by Joe &quot;Zonker&quot; Brockmeier (paper only for now).
<p>

</ul>

<h2>November, 2000</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/column/0,4712,2658066,00.html">Keep 
Tux Safe</a>, Sm@rt Partner, ZD Net, November 30, 2000
</strong></font><br>
&quot;<i>All of the &quot;r&quot; services (rsh, rlogin and rcp) should be removed
entirely and replaced, if necessary, with OpenSSH. If possible, OpenSSH also
should replace telnet and ftp</i>&quot;, writes David Raikow.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.freeos.com/articles/2745/2/13/">Replacing Telnet;
OpenSSH, a secure alternative </a>, FreeOS, November 21, 2000
</strong></font><br>
Mayank Sarup gives step-by-step guide to installing OpenSSH and its supporting
packages, Zlib and OpenSSL.
<p>


<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<u>Building OpenSSH 2.3.0 on Mac OS X Public Beta</u>,
stepwise.com, November 18, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Another platform for OpenSSH! Scott Anguish notes that the system comes with 
a not-for-commercial-use version of SSH, so he walks the reader through the 
steps necessary to install and configure OpenSSH. 
<p>

</ul>

<h2>October, 2000</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1160/sam0010a/0010a.htm">
Installing and Configuring OpenSSH</a>,
SysAdmin Magazine, October 2000
</strong></font><br>

Matt Lesko gives a concise yet thorough tutorial on OpenSSH, its beginnings,
installation and dependencies, and use. Also covers add-ons and some
Windows clients.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>September, 2000</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
Kostenlos gesch&uuml;tzt, FreeX Magazin, 4. Quartal 2000 (in German)
</strong></font><br>

Dr. Bernhard R&ouml;hrig provides a complete technical article on OpenSSH,
including detailed instructions on installing it with the necessary
dependencies under Linux, how it works and how to use it. He also covers scp
and port tunneling.
<br>
<i>[FreeX's <a href="http://www.cul.de/zeitsch/freex.html">home page</a>
doesn't reprint the issue articles.]</i>
<p>


<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://securityportal.com/topnews/rsa20000906.html">RSA Algorithm
Released: Update</a>, Security Portal, September 7, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Kurt Seifried does a credible job of sorting through the confusion surrounding
the RSA patent, and to RSA Inc.'s announcement that it is releasing it into the
public domain. He cites OpenSSH as one of many programs that will benefit from
the additional freedom.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>August, 2000</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-64.html">Complete
Reference Guide to Creating a Remote Log Server</a>, Linux Security, August 22, 2000
</strong></font><br>

OpenSSH is a major component in a secure remote log server described in detail by
Eric Hines and Fyodor Yarochkin. 
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0817/security.php3">SSH Communications changes ssh licence
</a>, Linux Weekly News, August 17, 2000
</strong></font><br>

SSH changed the licence on ssh again!  The new "free software people can use
our software freely" licence is similar to the new Motif licence.  Perhaps
they have realized that you may as well give software to the people who are not
going to buy it.  In the meantime, most of those people are going to choose
OpenSSH anyways.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_215587_1794_9-10000.html">Red Hat
boosts Linux security</a>, Network World Fusion, August 14, 2000
</strong></font><br>

OpenSSH is part of Red Hat's plans to improve the security of their 
forthcoming 7.0 &nbsp;pinstripe&nbsp; Linux release.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.diverge.org/outrider/200008rs.shtml">The Truth About
Security</a>, The OutRider Computing Journal, August, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Jason Fink writes a minimalist guide to security for those in too much of
a rush to appreciate the finer points. One of his recommendations is to
use secure protocols for Internet communications, e.g. OpenSSH.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>July, 2000</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, S&eacute;curit&eacute;.org, July 26, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
of OpenSSH.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.mandrakeuser.org/secure/sssh.html">SSH</a>, Mandrake User, July 14, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Tom Berger writes an extensive OpenSSH tutorial for new users.
<p>


<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0713/security.php3/">SSH 1.2.30 released,
new restrictive license</a>, Linux Weekly News, July 13, 2000
</strong></font><br>

The latest release of SSH.COM's SSH1 offering gets a tepid welcome.
<i>"If you haven't already moved over to using OpenSSH, available under a
fully free license, this is a good time consider it"</i>. There is further
commentary in this <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0706/security.php3">article
</a> in the weekly security pages.
<p>


<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2601010,00.html">OpenSSH's
Cinderella story</a>, ZDNet News, July 10, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Veteran writer Stephan Somogyi tells the tale of a group of 
&quot;less-than-gruntled&quot; developers who wrote the only unencumbered
open source implementation of SSH1 and SSH2.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000705.html">Why do vendors
ship us junk <i>they</i> wouldn't use?</a>, Security Portal, July 5, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Kurt Seifried takes Linux vendors to task for -- among other sins -- shipping
telnet enabled by default, and no SSH.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/PeterColijn/PeterColijn1.html">Linux
in the home - everywhere in the home</a>, OS Opinion, July, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Peter Colijn, a high school student in Calgary, AB, explains how Linux
provides an affordable learning platform at home. <i>&quot;It's also
running OpenSSH so I can login from my school to check my e-mail
(yes, our high school has about 10 Linux boxes, also running
OpenSSH)&quot;</i>, he writes.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>June, 2000</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.lwn.net/2000/0615/security.php3">OpenSSH 2.1.1 released</a>, Linux Weekly News, June 15, 2000
</strong></font><br>

As part of the release announcement, editor Liz Coolbaugh interviews Theo de Raadt on 
OpenSSH becoming a sort of underground success.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.lansystems.com/gazette.shtml?article-2000_06_10-1.ssi">Vince's
guide to OpenSSH</a>, LAN Systems Gazette, June 10, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Vince Hillier gives a tutorial on building and using OpenSSH on various Linux 
distributions.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2429168,00.html">Exorcise
FTP, Telnet and other evil daemons</a>, ZDNet Help &amp; How-To, June 2000
</strong></font><br>

Henry Kingman gives basic inetd security pointers and says you should replace
Telnet and FTP with more modern tools like ssh and scp. Because of the
&quot;weird&quot; licence on SSH, commercial users should look at OpenSSH or
lsh, he writes.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue54/stoddard.html">Building a Secure
Gateway System</a>, Linux Gazette, June 2000
</strong></font><br>

Chris Stoddard details the components for building a secure gateway system,
including OpenSSH.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>May, 2000</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
href="http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/ssh_intro.html">SSH: From
Secure Administration to Virtual Private Networking</a>, ISP Planet,
May 16, 2000
</strong></font><br>

"If you're still administering *NIX servers over the Internet using rsh
or telnet, stop right now," says author Lisa Phifer in the lead sentence
of her article. She then proceeds to show that it's not a big deal to
set up an OpenSSH 2.1 (SSH2) server and tests compatibility with three
commercial Windows clients. She also looks at simple VPN configurations.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
href="http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?back=2000/now0512.txt#TRACKING">sufficiently
advanced technology: the gathering</a>, NTK Now, May 12, 2000
</strong></font><br>

This take-no-prisoners online zine credits the "Knights of OpenSSH" for the
ability to connect to servers from insecure cyber-cafe terminals. The wire
is secure, but what about those pesky keystroke loggers? No problem,
they say, just use S/KEY one-time passwords with ssh.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.lwn.net/2000/0504/security.phtml">
OpenSSH now supports the SSH 2 protocol</a>,
Linux Weekly News, May 4, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Once again, Linux Weekly News beats the rest of the media, and notices that
OpenSSH now supports the SSH 2 protocol.  Kudos to them for remembering the
history of SSH 2 correctly...<p>

</ul>

<h2>March, 2000</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.freebsddiary.org/openssh.html">
OpenSSH - more secure and less restrictive</a>, The FreeBSD Diary, March 19, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Another discussion about the use of OpenSSH, this time specifically on FreeBSD.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-03/newproducts_01.html">OpenSSH - Be
Vewy Vewy Quiet, We're Logging in Remotewy. Heh Heh Heh.</a>, Zonker's
Product Picks, Linux Magazine, March 2000
</strong></font><br>

A short description of OpenSSH and links for more information.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>February, 2000</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a
href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html">All
About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH</a>, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Se&aacute;n Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to
OpenSSH running on OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris. He is very supportive of
the OpenSSH project and its goals.
<p>


<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a
href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part1.html">All
About SSH - Part 1</a>, Security Portal, February 14, 2000
</strong></font><br>

A two-part article on SSH by security consultant Se&aacute;n Boran. Part one
explains what SSH is, why you should use it and how to get it onto your
Linux or BSD system. The article also surveys the various commercial and
free implementations including OpenSSH. Part two, to be published later,
promises to focus on OpenSSH.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a
href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/opensourcetools.htm">Open Source Security Tools</a>,
Information Security, February 2000
</strong></font><br>

OpenSSH is listed as one of the many open source security tools.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a
href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html">OpenBSD
2.6 - new features</a>,
Security Portal, February 9, 2000
</strong></font><br>

OpenSSH is mentioned as part of Kurt Seifried's review of OpenBSD 2.6.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>January, 2000</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a
href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/news/0,6423,2426206,00.html"
>Opening up, government style</a>, ZDNet, January 24, 2000
</strong></font><br>

Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch discusses the possible ramifications
for open source software of the recently relaxed US government rules
governing crypto exports. However, even if Linux distributions were able
to freely export strong cryptography, he notes the RSA patent still
makes it difficult to use OpenSSH and the OpenSSL library in the USA.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>December, 1999</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199912/openssh.html">How SSH was freed</a>,
Daemonnews, December 1, 1999
</strong></font><br>

Daemonnews reports about the creation of OpenSSH.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>November, 1999</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a
href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/news/0,6423,2386632,00.html">Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
</strong></font><br>

Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch delves into the byzantine realm of US 
cryptography export regulations, and mentions OpenSSH as one of the 
freely available packages that can be imported into, but not exported
from the USA.
<p>

</ul>

<h2>October, 1999</h2>
<ul>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.freshmeat.net/news/1999/10/25/940898275.html">Secure Shell integrated into OpenBSD</a>,
Freshmeat, October 25, 1999
</strong></font><br>

Freshmeat prints the official OpenSSH press release.
<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.lwn.net/1999/1014/security.phtml">The existence of OpenSSH-1.0 has been confirmed</a>,
Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
</strong></font><br>

Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
OpenSSH, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>

<li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="openssh_pr.txt">The OpenBSD project's announcement of OpenSSH</a>,
October 25, 1999
</strong></font><br>
The original announcement which the OpenBSD project made.
<p>

</ul>

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